“Robotnica”, “Włościanka” and “Kobieta Sowiecka” – The leading titles mass soviet women’s press at the central level (before and after World War II) Cover Image

„Robotnica”, „Włościanka” i „Kobieta Sowiecka” – główne tytuły masowej sowieckiej prasy kobiecej szczebla centralnego (przed II wojną i po II wojnie światowej)
“Robotnica”, “Włościanka” and “Kobieta Sowiecka” – The leading titles mass soviet women’s press at the central level (before and after World War II)

Author(s): Adam Miodowski
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Wydawnictwo HUMANICA Instytut Studiów Kobiecych
Keywords: Soviet Union; Agitprop; Committee of Soviet Women; women’s mass press; politicization of the press; Robotnica [Workwoman]; Włościanka [Countrywoman]; Kobieta Sowiecka [Soviet Woman]

Summary/Abstract: In Poland, there is a noticeable deficit of knowledge about the mass Soviet women’s press. After all, it for decades shaped the views and attitudes of millions of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian women and other residents of the Soviet Union. Such periodicals as “Robotnica”, “Włościanka”, “Kobieta Sowiecka”, being at the central level a part of a powerful propaganda machine, facilitated the Communist Party’s ‘piecemeal’ of women’s souls in the spirit of Marxist feminism. And its promoters, such as Nadezhda Krupska, Anna Ulyanova-Yelizarova, Inessa Armand, Aleksandra Kołłontaj and many others like them, so much that less known associates of Vladimir Lenin and his successors combined political and journalistic activity. The consequence of this situation was not only the instrumentalization of the women’s press politicized by the communist party, but also the limitation of its agency.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 97-125
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish
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